Brand identity
Names, marks, typography, and the rules that keep everything coherent as you grow. We build systems, not just logos.

Independent creative studio
We are a small studio designing brands, products, and campaigns in disciplined black and white — so the idea, not the decoration, does the talking.
60+
Projects shipped
12
Years working
9
Design awards
4
Disciplines
Who we are
We believe most work is louder than it needs to be. Our job is to find the one true thing a brand has to say — and then protect it from everything that would water it down.
We started this studio in 2013 with a simple frustration. The design we admired most — the record sleeves, the museum wayfinding, the annual reports nobody expects to love — had a quiet confidence to it. It didn't reach for attention. It earned it. And almost nothing we saw being made day to day had that quality. So we set out to make work that did, and to stay small enough that we never had to compromise to keep the lights on.
Ten years on, that principle still runs through everything. We work in monochrome not because it's a gimmick, but because black and white forces every other decision to earn its place. When you can't hide behind a gradient, you have to get the idea, the typography, and the spacing exactly right. That discipline is the whole point — it's why our work tends to age well, and why clients come back for the second project, and the third.
We are deliberately small. There is no account layer between you and the people making the work — the person you brief is the person who designs, writes, and builds. That means fewer projects at a time, more attention on each, and a level of care that larger studios simply can't sustain. If you want a machine, we're the wrong choice. If you want a partner who will fight for the clearest possible version of your idea, we should talk.
Selected work
Every project below started the same way — a conversation, a lot of listening, and a stubborn belief in restraint.
Brand Identity · 2025Meridian Bank
A complete identity system for a challenger bank that wanted to feel calm, not loud.
+118%
Brand recall
8 wks
Launch time
40+
Touchpoints
Digital Product · 2025Atlas Journal
A reading experience for a long-form journal that treats the screen with the same care as the printed page.
3.1×
Read time
+64%
Completed reads
−41%
Bounce rate
Campaign · 2024Nordic Studio
A launch campaign built on a single bold line and a lot of empty space.
+92%
Direct traffic
2.4×
Engagement
#1
Quarter rank
Digital Product · 2024Form&Function
A workspace tool redesign that removed features until only the essentials remained.
+57%
Activation
−73%
Support tickets
−30%
Screens
Motion & Film · 2024Lumen Festival
A title sequence and identity system for an arts festival, built entirely from moving typography.
120+
Applications
1
Award
9
Formats
Brand Identity · 2023Gallery North
A wayfinding and print system for a contemporary art gallery, designed to disappear behind the work.
+38%
Dwell time
24
Print pieces
1
Weight
How we work
We stay small on purpose. The people you meet are the people who do the work — from the first sketch to the final handoff.
Names, marks, typography, and the rules that keep everything coherent as you grow. We build systems, not just logos.
Interfaces that respect attention — researched, designed, and built with the same hands, so nothing is lost in translation.
One idea, expressed with conviction across every place a person might see it — from a billboard to a phone screen.
Type and image in motion, from title sequences to social cut-downs, always in the same disciplined language.
What we believe
No account layer, no hand-offs to a junior team. You work directly with the people doing the thinking and the making, start to finish.
We add nothing that doesn't carry meaning. If it can be removed without losing the idea, it goes. What's left has to be right.
Trends fade and so does work that chases them. We design for the version of your brand that still looks considered in five years.
In their words
We'd rather let the people we've worked with do the talking. Here's a little of what they've told us.
They removed everything that didn't matter and left us with something we're proud to put our name on. Nine weeks later the whole company talks about the brand differently.
The most disciplined studio we've worked with. Every decision had a reason, and the reason was always the reader — not the trophy cabinet.
One line and a photograph. We were nervous. It turned out to be the best-performing campaign in our history — and the simplest to run.
Tell us what you're building. We reply to every serious enquiry within two business days.